Washington's Road to Outward Growth (washingtonpost.com)
Thanks to Daniel Bliss for passing along this link. Here we see Southern California-style long-distance commuting taking hold in the DC area. How many metro areas will develop like this?

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. -- The vast new home development under construction here lies so far beyond the last ring of Washington suburbia that even rival developers marvel at its audacity.

The 3,200-home Huntfield community has been laid out according to neo-traditional town planning principles and designed with nostalgic American home architecture. It boasts front porches, lots of parks and an obelisk at the entrance. New four-bedroom homes sell for about $270,000 -- at least $150,000 less than the cost of a similar house closer to Washington.

But the real-life price for the vast majority of residents is a daily commute that takes about an hour or more. The subdivision of super-commuters sits across the Blue Ridge Mountains and more than 25 miles from the nearest job center, in Leesburg, and even farther from offices in Reston, Tysons Corner and Washington.